Paper receptacle.



L W FARMBR PAPER REGEPTAGLE.

APPLICATION FILED mm. m, 1912.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

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' LUKE W. FARMER, 0F SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER RECEP'IACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

-PatentedDec. 30, 1913.

Application filed August 16,1912, Serial No: 715,400.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUKE W. FARMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts. have invented an Im-. provement in Paper Receptacles, of which I the following is a specification.

vertical section of .a paper receptacle embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is an under side plan view ofthe same.

The body-portion 10 of the receptacle is composed of paper and is here shown as frusto-conical, it being herein represented as a flat strip of paper bent into circular form and its ends overlapped and secured together. Said body-portion has a large opening at the top and a very much smaller opening at the bottom. so that its sides flare outwardly.

The bottom-piece consists of a circular piece of paper having projections 12 arranged entirely around its edge, with spaces between them. Said projections are bent downward atan angle to the center portion,

and also are bent intermediate their length at an acute angle, as represented in Fig. 1, and the outer end-portions of said projections extend outwardly in a horizontal plane, in parallel with the central portion of the bottom-piece and the inner end-portions of said projections extend upwardly in a direction substantially in parallel with the flaring side walls of the body-portion 10. The bottom-piece thus constructed has a frusto-conical crown or center-portion and an. outwardly extended horizontal flange.

Said bottom-piece is made of such size that" its crown is larger in diameter than the opening at'the bottom of the body-portion. 10, and its flange extends outward beyond the side of the crown. The bottom-piece is associated with the body-portion 10 in such manner that its crown occupies a position at the inside of the body-portion fitting into and closing the opening at the bottom thereof and its horizontal flange extends ont wardly beneath the lower end of said bodyportion, the edge of the paper forming the lower end of the body-portion terminating at and abutting against the top of the out wardly extended portions of the projections. Said flange serves as a base to give to the receptacle additional stability. The two pieces, thus constructed and associated together, are coated with paraflin-wax or some equivalent waterproof material. Paraffin-wax is well suited for the purpose, for the reason that'it fills the interstices between the projections at the joint formed by the crown engaging and body-portion, thereby acting to make the receptacle water-tight, and also acts to stiffen the outwardly extended portion of the projections which form the flange. The receptacle is usually made quite shallow and of approximately the proportions shown in Fig. 1.

I claim z- As a new article of manufacture, a paper receptacle consisting of a body-portion open at the top and bottom and having flaring sides and a bottom-piece composed of a circular piece of paper with numerous projections around its edge, said projections being bent intermediate their length at an acute angle thereby to for 'na central crown and an outwardly extended flange, said bottompiece being arranged at the bottom of the body-portion with its crown arranged within and fitting the opening at the bottom of the body-portion and the outer end portions of its projections extended outwardly in a horizontal plane beneath and in engagement with the lower edge of said body-portion, the receptacle being coated with paraflin-wax, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. LUKE w. FARMER. 

